It's the very first weekend after her very first week of college classes and Lenore is in dire need of some dorm room decorations with real personality. This street looked promising when she turned on to it, but all she's seeing through the shop windows so far is tea and scented candles and for some reason an entire display of olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Ooh, a used bookstore! No, don't get distracted. Come on, is there really not a single weird object to be had around here for love nor money? Will she be reduced to turning around and heading for the prominently advertised sex shop and buying a dildo as a conversation piece?
"Mime powers! Sound and look very silly, but undeniable in usefulness - mime a ladder, and really climb, mime a chair and really sit, mime a hair tie and really ponytail. Mood weather. Not really sure why people want to have mood weather raining on them when they are already sad, but there it is. This one is the hybridizing one, you are taking it twice already. Creepsome blood magic, use it to substitute for mana or do telekinesis with it or puppet anybody with blood - which is not everybody, consider - specifically powerful to sacrifice innocent virgin young folks but swapping in a very expensive fish also works. Levitation! Very popular, flip gravity off and never need to touch the ground again nor let objects you want do it neither, fly around without your broom, lots of fun. And this one makes your broom - it is a form of the rod, one of the mothergifts from mama witch through whom we are cousins - much faster and fancier, spend a little or a lot depending on how much."
"If I'm going to be relying so much on my magic broom anyway I might want it very fancy! What kinds of fanciness are on offer?"
"Move it around by remote control, summon it smart quick even if you do not buy a lot of Witchery, go 250 feet on it in a second - stacks with anything else making your broom faster, levitation also does this - improve maneuverability so you can do sharper turns or stop on dimes."
"I have never considered myself a stunt flying sort of person but maybe all it took to unlock my secret yearnings was a magic broomstick. How much for the fanciest? And levitation too?"
"Oof, we're getting into fairy ring territory. Maybe I'll hold off until I've seen some more things. What else is there?"
"That is it for wild magic. Domestic magic, over here. Cheapest for warlocks is curses, hexes - transmutation, like - necromancy, demon summoning - called consortation - and divination. Cheap for your affinity trio we have alchemy, hexes again, familiarity - that is having a familiar animal, not being acquainted - portals, windkeeping, naturalism, earthmoving. Ones for warlocks actually are so cheap you want one of each and gain points of it, though you gain more points from taking restriction if you truly hate the idea of one or two. Full price for you is runes, witchery - the rod and hat and robe business - aethernautics, and one-but-only-one your choice of firecalling waterworking psionics metallurgy."
"So I'm spending some points now on magic, but I also get some sort of magic points from doing quests for my new boss, right? What's the difference between those—do I get to make up for whatever I don't take here by grabbing more magic later with my warlocking fees, or do the warlocking fees pay me in some totally different thing? I'll take all my better-than-free warlock stuff except maybe if I want to ban myself from summoning demons, do I want to ban myself from summoning demons? It sounded like I might want to ban myself from summoning demons."
"A popular thing to ban one's self from, though you needn't ever actually summon one if you take the first rank in it. Your quest points can be spent just like these ones now, but these are what you have to do first questing with."
"You can! Though you will not keep getting points for all of ever. Hestia might give you quests for all of ever but you can only spend them toward points after you hit your cap. Yours is high but not infinity - one hundred to start, well above average respectable, and taking the drawbacks increases that."
"Oh, no, this is like picking college classes all over again. So much thinking about my future. Wait, so taking drawbacks doesn't just get me magic faster, it also gets me more magic than I'd get otherwise? No wonder people are going around addicting themselves to sex..."
"Maybe that's for the best. Well. I should think about what kinds of magic will make me good at my job. And if I'm going to be fantastically good at flying around on my magic broom, I should probably also learn how to be invisible so no one sees me flying around on my magic broom, is there a magic for being invisible?"
"Four ranks of this will do it," she pokes Witchery, "will cost you six points and further fancify your broom and also hat and robe. Or two ranks consortation and get demons to do it, foliots can invisiblize things. Some sensors will still spot you either which way, so be mindful of airspace, on this Earth. Other places go nuts though."
"First rank lets you get the rod to be a broom at all and makes it so the outfit replaces your clothes when you appear them. Second gets you a windshield for the broom and climate control and self-repair for the garment and adds passenger space and automatically catching you if you fall off, also lets the garment have more pieces so you are not default commando. Third lets you reach into where they go when you are not using them! Pull a rabbit out of your hat and put it back when you are done having a rabbit, say. Faster broom, lets you fly up high without going oh no there is not enough air here even if you want to go to space, air cushion to sit on so you aren't squashing your bits, turn it into a magic carpet if you want for bonus passengers. Four is the invisibility garment at will and more weight capacity, plus you can do tailoring for anyone who did not buy all this and wants theirs redesigned."
"Oh, tailoring could be a nice side gig! That sounds charming. Sure, let's say I'll take four ranks of Witchery. How often do witches on broomsticks get spotted by sensors and how much of a hassle is it?"
"Does not happen often because is extremely huge hassle. Absolute no on the spreading around magic being real on anchor Earth. Kills the dinosaurs level problem there and that time this wasn't even the anchor Earth."
"...that sounds like I'm going to need something more aggressive than invisibility if I'm going to be sneaking around coddling lightbulbs."
"Seen by someone taking care of lightbulb not huge. Be a UFO and scramble fighter jets and make headlines, huge."
"They do! But close calls get attention of ORC. Law enforcement for magicals, sort of, ish."
"I was already sold on not re-ending the dinosaurs but magical law enforcement just makes me want to steer clear even more. Maybe I should rethink my broom-related life choices. What cool stuff do I get for extra super cheap for being a warlock, again? Let's hear about some of that."
"Hexes is turning things into other things. It turns mana crystallized into little coins called Kisses for some reasons - six minutes per and they aren't worth much, you want something else to fix that up - turning smallish creatures into other animals, or salt into sugar and back into other salt if you want, clay and glass, iron and tin, stone to mud. You sacrifice some wood, at that rank. Each rank needs a pricier medium to sacrifice but makes the polymorphing better, more flexible, and adds some things you can swap between. They sound mightily specific - things like 'egg to chocolate', where you might come up with a use but you will never think to yourself 'if only this egg were chocolate whatever shall I do' - but you get mileage of it. Rank three means you can animate objects, Sorcerer's Apprentice style, make sure you know how to make them quit! Rank 5 and you can copy any mundie object if you have the media for it. But, again, hexing your way through a cottage industry of Rolexes, gets attention, which is bad. It is maybe less dire than you think! Tell your family and best friend! But nothing public, nothing where strangers knock on your door and say will you please comment on what the fuck."